Re: Making aufs work on CentOS 6

2015-11-09 Thread Saurabh Jain
> Is your change same to this commit in aufs3? > > 8d602a6 2012-11-09 aufs: for linux-3.7, replace __getname_gfp() by > __get_free_page() Thanks. This is just what I needed. My change was similar, but with many errors. I have fixed them and now the kernel compiles and runs. I will let you know

Re: Making aufs work on CentOS 6

2015-11-08 Thread sfjro
Hello Saurabh, Saurabh Jain: > I am in the situation of having to make aufs work on CentOS 6 / RHEL > 6. This is unfortunate because I'm not a fan of backporting stuff. My ::: Me either. I don't like backporting. > On this, I apply two changes. One is along the lines of >

Re: Making aufs work on CentOS 6

2015-11-08 Thread Saurabh Jain
Thanks for your feedback Junjiro > - you replaced __getname_gfp(GFP_NOFS) by __get_free_page(GFP_NOFS) > - but you didn't replace __putname() by free_page() > then it is a problem. I just tried replacing __putname() with free_page() but the panic continues (appended at the end of this email).

Re: Making aufs work on CentOS 6

2015-11-08 Thread sfjro
Saurabh Jain: > I just tried replacing __putname() with free_page() but the panic > continues (appended at the end of this email). Is your change same to this commit in aufs3? 8d602a6 2012-11-09 aufs: for linux-3.7, replace __getname_gfp() by __get_free_page() > Would you send me a diff on